🇵🇰⚡- Tahreek-e-Taliban takes responsibility for a vehicle borne attack in the Bajaur region, disputed region of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa of western Pakistan.

Death toll varies, 7-15 Pakistani security personnel were killed in the attack.

🇫🇷 🇮🇳 Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Mumbai, India, for a three-day official visit focused on defense and artificial intelligence.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Iran has received messages from the US that the talks in Geneva will only deal with the nuclear issue.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian state TV is reporting that negotiations between Iran and the United States are set to begin within the next hour at the Omani Embassy in Geneva, Switzerland.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “It seems to them that the US president repeatedly says that his army is the strongest in the world. The strongest army in the world can sometimes receive such a blow that it cannot get up. They keep saying that we sent an aircraft carrier towards Iran. Well, an aircraft carrier is of course a dangerous tool, but more dangerous than the aircraft carrier is the weapon that can send the aircraft carrier to the bottom of the sea." - Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei as negotiations are ongoing between the United States and Iran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is conducting naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz for the second day in a row, as negotiations continue in Geneva, Switzerland.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Parts of the Strait of Hormuz will be closed for a few hours during the IRGC exercises.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇭⚡- The second-round of US-Iran talks in Geneva have ended.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇭⚡- The White House reports that progress was made in today's US-Iran talks in Geneva, but a lot of details still need addressing.

The third-round of talks will be held in the next two weeks.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇨🇭⚡- Tehran floated the idea of temporarily hating all enrichment on Iranian soil for three years and sending its stockpile of 400kg+ highly enriched uranium abroad, The Wall Street Journal reported.

In return, Iran wants major sanctions relief and possible US-Iran joint business deals.

🇺🇸⚡️- Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, plans to step down and leave the Trump administration. - POLITICO.

Notably, this comes in the wake of shake-ups in the administration after Trump caved on mass deportations.

🇺🇸 - A squadron of US jets being dragged towards the CENTCOM AoR.

The image was taken over over the UK or Western Europe.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- 6 F-22s have arrived at RAF Lakenheath en route to the Middle East arena.

🇺🇸⚡- An E-11A BACN (Battlefield Airborne Communications Node) has departed towards Europe, with its final destination likely the Middle East.

🇺🇸⚡- Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has entered the Atlantic Ocean, leaving the Carribbean waters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Striking Iran is not just a political decision. It's an operational one. And the conditions are coming together," - Yoav Gallant, former Israeli Defense Minister.

🇺🇸⚡- Two tankers for the E-3G AWACS have gone airborne over mainland US, carrying another two E-3Gs to the UK, bringing the total to an unprecedented four in Europe.

🇺🇸 - The scale of US aerial movement to Europe / the Middle East over the past 24 hours has been extraordinary, by far the largest in decades.

🇺🇸 - In the past 12 hours, 12 F-16s and 12 F-22s departed from mainland US towards Europe. 24 F-16s departed from Europe towards the Middle East.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "Russia has agreed only to a one-day ceasefire to organize and hold a nationwide vote, and not to the 60 days that Zelensky believes are necessary," - Axios.